I know this is very far from health and fitness. I know this is not even in the realm . . . . but it is in my head. It is stuck. I get songs stuck in my brain and they just play over and over. Does that ever happen to you? Do you get that ear worm? Right now I have two songs stuck in my head this one (The Fox) and one that is in the Nia Routine I am current learning/”teaching” in my Monday and Wednesday morning Nia classes. The song is Sexy from the Nia Routine Oshun. It has no words, as this group/woman often “sings”, no words. But the woman makes noises. She hums, moans, groans, hisses, and vocalizes. It is a hauntingly addicting tune and you I find myself moaning and vocalizing along with the song or just singing it out of the blue. But I always find it odd to “sing” the non-words. I had, at one time, a link to a video of it, but I can no longer find that. But the The Fox is all over the internet, including in my last post. In regards to lyrics, “The Fox” also has a lot of “non-words” but I guess that is because that is what the fox says. Because really that is what foxes says, according to recordings made by researchers. The recordings can be found on The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library website.
The the information regarding the one recording states it is a recording of Red Foxes in Ontario, Canada. It can be found here:
http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/55363/vulpes-vulpes-red-fox-canada-ontario-william-w-h-gunn
I think the voice on the recording says, “Young cross fox or black fox still in the puppy stage.” The recording is labeled red fox, but I it really sounds like he say black fox. I think the sound the foxes make is more comparable to the “Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff! Tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff! Joff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff!” Although the Wired blog post titled “What Does the Fox Say? The Viral Music Video Isn’t Totally Wrong” states it is “clearly . . . . a low-key version of Chacha-chacha-chacha-chow”.
The recording of a female and male arctic fox sound to me like a mixture of Ylvis’ Chacha-chacha-chacha-chow and Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow! On this recording the fox noises stop at 1:18 then the researching talks about the foxes and the conditions of recording.
http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/138274
Whereas I think the common gray fox recorded in Sierra County, California is saying “A-hee-ahee ha-hee! A-hee-ahee ha-hee!” That recording can be heard here:
http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/60087
Devon Maloney, the author of the Wired Post I mentioned above, and I don’t exactly agree on what the foxes on the recordings say in connection with what Ylvis says, but I do believe we do both agree that Ylvis was onto something. They did get “What the Fox Say” pretty darn accurate. Hopefully my obsession with this song will be done by week’s end. But I won’t be surprised if it resurfaces. It is just so very funny. Very entertaining. I think the two that make up Ylvis are really interested in knowing what their guardian angels are saying. They asks “what is your sound”, but I actually think they have the sounds down pretty well. I am happy that their longing to know what the fox say has led to such hilarious entertainment.
So have you seen the video yet? What do you think?
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